Baidu released Apollo 2.0, which supports simple urban road conditions and introduced four new functions, including cloud services, software platforms, reference hardware platforms and reference vehicle platforms.
Apollo supports four main computing platforms, including NVIDIA, Intel, NXP and Renesas. Baidu announced that the Apollo platform has 165,000 lines of code and is adding approximately 65,000 lines of code each quarter.

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Apollo has garnered more than 90 partners, including some of the worlds leading forces in autonomous driving.

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Chinas Ministry of Science and Technology announced that Baidu Apollo has been designated as the national autonomous driving open platform.

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Baidu formed a strategic partnership with Xiamen King Long United Automotive (King Long). King Long plans to produce Level 4 buses using Apollo by July 2018.

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Baidu formed a strategic partnership with BAIC Group. BAIC Group plans to mass-produce vehicles with Level 3 autonomous features around 2019 and fully autonomous Level 4 cars around 2021 using Apollo.

Baidu formed a strategic partnership with Anhui Jianghuai Automobile Group Corporation (JAC) for the mass production of self-driving cars. JAC plans to begin producing cars using Apollo in the second half of 2019.

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Baidu formed a strategic partnership with Chinese car-hailing company Shouqi Limousine & Chauffeur to fast-track the development of smart transport through Apollo and
DuerOS platforms.

Baidu, NVIDIA and ZF are creating a production-ready AI autonomous vehicle platform designed for China. This collaboration is based on Baidus Apollo Pilot, an autonomous driving product targeted for mass
production, the new NVIDIA DRIVE Xavier and ZFs new ProAI car computer.

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Baidu and Udacity announced the launch of Apollos autonomous driving online courses, which are designed to expand the base of Apollo developers.

Baidu released DuerOS major upgrade version 2.0 with enriched solutions, Bot platform for developers and an improved voice interaction experience. DuerOS has more than 130 partners building over 50 DuerOS-powered
hardware products, including televisions, smart speakers, smartphones, smart headsets and more. DuerOS Intelligent Device Platform launched more turn-key solutions to cover various form factors, including
televisions, smart speakers, smartphones, smart headsets and smart robots. DuerOS Bot Platform has garnered over 7,000 skill developers and released over 100 skills.

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Baidu formed a strategic partnership with Qualcomm to optimize Baidus voice assistant DuerOS for smartphones on the Qualcomm® Snapdragon Mobile
Platform, including the upcoming Snapdragon 845 Mobile Platform.